how to be happy

Happiness is as much a thing we are as it is something we do. We have to do happiness sometimes in order to help ourselves be happy. Exercise Movement is good for the body. As natural hunters and gatherers, we…

Happiness is an art that can be learned. Instead of sitting around waiting for joy to descend upon you or searching for fulfillment in all the wrong places, consider how you can incorporate these keys to true sustainable happiness into…

What determines happiness? I only would read the “answers” to this question because on it’s face it seems so ridiculous and I’d be curious. My baseline belief would be that only you and I can individually determine what happiness is…

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. ~ Benjamin Franklin More? Uncovering Happiness is not about simply being drunk on life. peace and happiness Compassion: Brain food for happiness

To be happy you have to find variety in repetition; to go forward you have to come back to where you began. ~from Middlesex on a random page moments after thinking I would put it down…. proof a moment…

Walking on the purple sand of Pheifer Beach, I noticed an old man building stone pagodas. There are thousands of them in this secret cove, I’ve built a few on my previous visits and from the looks of it so…

I wrote this the night before taking the Precepts in Sri Lanka, July 2014 and repeated and re-committed to it everyday since. This is what a constant, rigorous spiritual practice means to me. I am responsible for the cultivation…